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Wyndes and weders haue her drevyn⁾,

Þat in a forest she is revyn⁾,

There wyld beestis were; 1845

She and they reach land.

The see was eb, and went her ffroo,

f. 106b.

And lefte her and her children⁾ two

Alone with-oute ffere.

Her one child woke and be-gan⁾ to wepe,

The lady a-woke oute of her slepe 1850

Desonell stills her crying child,

And said: ‘Be still̴, my dere, [1951]

Iesu Cryst hath sent vs lond;

Yf there be any cryston man⁾ nere hond,

We shall̴ haue som socoure here.’

1844. forest] so F. VII; ftrest MS.
she is] so F. VII; be they MS.

A GRIFFIN CARRIES OFF ONE OF DESONELL’S BOYS.